Month of FUN! I love DECEMBER!!!

This past month was game pack as I'm sure all was. I had wanted to take the boys to Temple square to see the lights. Lucky for us, the Hawkes family was going and invited all to join.
After arranging my shifts to be covered WE WERE IN!!! A memorable trip it was. We decided to leave our vehicle at Little America and ride the Track to the square. I was a little hesitant having a stroller and fitting. Long story short....Missed Track because we didn't fit threw the doors...only to find we "should" be able to fit in the front or back doors. We ended up WALKING all the way there. #1= It was freezing cold!
#2= it wasn't a short walk #3 our plan to eat before didn't happen #4 starving kids...
So by the time we met up and the plan to eat before fell through we decided to just walk around.

Who new it was almost 900pm Kobe started to cry that he was cold (no doubt that he was), we we round to the visitor building excited to see the Christ statue only to hear on the loud speaker "please start exiting...the building will be closed in 5mins!!!"
NO STATUE....only time to thaw out your nose to only let the icicle turn to running bugger rivers!AWESOME! so we thought we would see the manger seen, but then once again...the spotlights would come on but NO SOUND! AWESOME! By this time Kobe was starting to cry hysterical saying "I'M COLD AND HUNGRY. I WANT WATER" I think his little brain was frozen. Well we were the party bums and said we were cutting the fun short and heading back to the hotel and getting some grub. Both Boys cried all the way to Carl's jr. (lucky only 3-4 blocks away)at which were we hadn't realized how frozen Trevor's hands were and Kobe never made it the eating point only collapse on the bench and fell asleep!


The best part was we ready and knowledgeable to ride the Track back and so when it pulled up we pushed the button the open the back doors and NOTHING! the mamn inside was trying to open it from the inside and NOTHING! needless to say I letchure Jason for at least not getting on with Trevor because Jeff couldn't make it Maelin (we would walk together back and at least one kid wouldn't be frozen) Jason then preceded to inform me Jeff got on and I would have walked back ALONE! OH! So we walked back AGAIN! only this time my stomach was upset! AWESOME!!

So the next morning we made our own version of the Little America breakfast....Waffles, eggs, ham, fruit, cereal, donuts, plain or chocolate milk....and wonderful company! Swimming, Kobe suddeenly discovered his independence. He was just swimming around and jumping in like a fish and Trevor loved the water once da mama was holding him. After swimming, we headed out and had a BLAST at gateway Discovery CENTER!!
We were smart this time to DRIVE while everyone else rode the train again!




We redeem our selves with looking at christmas lights by heading out to the South hills. I swear they had more lights this year. A warm night with tons of people. Trevor wasn't getting any closer to Santa and Kobe couldn't get enough. We went around at least twice!



A new tradition for our family and one only to be improved next year!
and an old tradition (candle light dinner) we enjoyed with some friends! Thanks Julie for joining in on our craziness!


Christmas eve was at the jones with GG and PAPA and the rest of that side of the family. Then we headed back home to were we told Santa we would be. Christmas morning was soooo fun. Kobe would say to everything "IIIIIII lllllove it!" (it did crack me when he open a box of cereal With the REAL present INSIDE he said "Mom we got new cereal....I love it"
Trevor on the other hand was hard to convince to move onto the next present. He would have been excited the the first present....A cell phone! It was a funnnnnnn and memorable Christmas. I was glad to finally be finished with j's levi blanket (which Kobe one night decided to wisper ever so quietly to Jason "Mom made you a cool blanket for christmas...he was soo cute about that all we could do was bust up laughing) and GG pillow, but I was happy with how they turned out.

J surprised me with a get away on Sunday just the two of us. Thanks grandma and pa for watching the boys. Jason was even clever to bring long our toaster and some pizza's so we would have to go out to dinner on SUNDAY! We had a nice trip over to see my sweat cuz LISA and ger family. I wish the boys could have played with her boys but the time alone was NICE!! Monday we went shopping (this was part of my belated birthday spending) and lunch at OLive garden and we were back in time to go bowling for Mason' birthday!!

We even got some time to play in the snow for a bit with some friends. I loved having Jason home for almost 2 weeks!!




The usually new year with the Beck' (great company, food and fireworks) was replaced with a DAY ON THE JOB! what's better then ringing in the new year at work?? But my sweet hunny had his parents came down and Brother-in-law and Sister came over just in case I got an "on call". YEAHHHH for me because I DID! I was home by 7:30 with plenty of time to play games, eat snacks and enjoy family time! Although I almost missed the ringing in the new years cause I had a date with "Jon". But I came running into the room just as they said ....1....Happy New Year!!! Fewwww that would have been a sad beginning to the new year :) We have had so much fun. It said that Jason had to go back to work...I was starting to enjoy things....We are excited for the new year and can't wait for the suprises it holds!!!! Happy New Year!!!